Schimäre
[ʃiˈmɛːʁə]
The verdict
“Schimäre” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trugbild, Hirngespinst, leere Wahnvorstellung
Corpus desk
Index DE-schimare · Schimäre · German
Schimäre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schimäre |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃiˈmɛːʁə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Schimäre“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Schimäre is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʃiˈmɛːʁə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Trugbild, Hirngespinst, leere Wahnvorstellung".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Schimäre, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Schimäre, spelled S-C-H-I-M-Ä-R-E.
Definition
- 1Trugbild, Hirngespinst, leere Wahnvorstellung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Schimäre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auf der Suche nach einer Frau ist Bodo jahrelang immer wieder Schimären nachgejagt. Es war ja doch nie die Richtige für ihn.
„Allein die Schimäre wandelt sich, wie viele Schimären, zu etwas Realem“.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.